Process of salting peanuts.



MED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED Ill-POTTER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PROCESS OF SALTING PEANUTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,918, dated November 18, 1802.

Application iiled February 25, 1902. Serial No. 96,624. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: original condition of the nut' and the appar- Be it known that I, ALFRED R. POTTER, a ent fresh and salable appearance of the same, 25 citizen of the United States, residing in the as evident, when opened. In other words, city and county of Philadelphia, State of while the salting of the nut has been eifected 5 Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usethe protective nature of the exterior shells ful Process of Salting Peanuts, of which the and inner skins are undisturbed until the following is a specification. necessary breaking of the shells. 30 My invention-consists of a novel process or Having thus described my invention, what method of salting nuts, embodying the treat- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 1o ment of the same with salt while in the shell. Patent, is-

In carrying out my invention I place nuts 1. The method of treating a nut, the samein raw cpndition in water to which salt has consisting in boiling the nut while in its shell 55 been or is added and boil them so that they in salt water, and roasting the unshelled nut are subject to the action of the salt permeatas thus boiled.

:5 ing the shells. When the boiling has been 2." The method of treating a nut, the same sufiiciently accomplished, the nuts are reconsisting in boiling the nut while in its shell moved from the water and dried and roasted in salt water, and then drying and roasting 40 while in the shell. the unshelled nut asthus boiled.

It will be seen that the meat or nuts proper, 20 though salted, remain shelled, and so may be r ALFRED transported, &c., without exposure to air or Witnesses; contact with the hands, dirt, &c., and the JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, covering skins will be intact, preserving the C. D. MOVAY. 

